07-Dec-07The A-listOn Monday you can find out if they have bagged a place in The Lawyer’s Hall of Fame. On Tuesday we reported that SJ Berwin senior partner Jonathan Blake, Linklaters senior partner David Cheyne and Berwin Leighton Paisner managing partner Neville Eisenberg had made this year’s edition of the Who’s Who. On Monday you […]
07-Dec-07The A-listOn Monday you can find out if they have bagged a place in The Lawyer’s Hall of Fame. On Tuesday we reported that SJ Berwin senior partner Jonathan Blake, Linklaters senior partner David Cheyne and Berwin Leighton Paisner managing partner Neville Eisenberg had made this year’s edition of the Who’s Who. On Monday you […]
A trio from 5 Paper Buildings has failed to convince a jury that champion jockey Kieren Fallon and five others were guilty of race-fixing. Today (7 December) Mr Justice Forbes at the Old Bailey directed the jury to find the defendants not guilty of conspiracy to defraud customers of betting exchange Betfair. The trial centred […]
A trio from 5 Paper Buildings has failed to convince a jury that champion jockey Kieren Fallon and five others were guilty of race-fixing. Today (7 December) Mr Justice Forbes at the Old Bailey directed the jury to find the defendants not guilty of conspiracy to defraud customers of betting exchange Betfair. The trial centred […]
A parcel bomb has killed a legal secretary and seriously injured a lawyer in the building of French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s former law firm. The package was addressed to a firm run by Catherine Gouet-Jenselme on the fourth floor of a building on Paris’ Boulevard Malesherbes. The firm, which specialises in divorce, insurance and property […]
A parcel bomb has killed a legal secretary and seriously injured a lawyer in the building of French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s former law firm. The package was addressed to a firm run by Catherine Gouet-Jenselme on the fourth floor of a building on Paris’ Boulevard Malesherbes. The firm, which specialises in divorce, insurance and property […]
Former Weil Gotshal & Manges private equity star Will Rosen is set to join DLA Piper in January. As first revealed by The Lawyer (3 September) Rosen, who left Weil in July, has been in talks with a number of firms since August. DLA Piper partners received voting papers on Rosen’s appointment yesterday (6 December) […]
Former Weil Gotshal & Manges private equity star Will Rosen is set to join DLA Piper in January. As first revealed by The Lawyer (3 September) Rosen, who left Weil in July, has been in talks with a number of firms since August. DLA Piper partners received voting papers on Rosen’s appointment yesterday (6 December) […]
Building equipment distributor Wolseley has scooped Corus general counsel Richard Shoylekov to take the role of company secretary and head of legal. He replaces interim general counsel Charles Watters, who had stepped into the role following the departure of Mark White earlier in the year to join food services outfit, Compass Group. Shoylekov will take […]
Building equipment distributor Wolseley has scooped Corus general counsel Richard Shoylekov to take the role of company secretary and head of legal. He replaces interim general counsel Charles Watters, who had stepped into the role following the departure of Mark White earlier in the year to join food services outfit, Compass Group. Shoylekov will take […]
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) today (7 December) announced it will launch a pilot scheme to monitor whether chambers are complying with the bar code of conduct. The pilot, which is due to launch in April next year, is the forerunner to the quality assurance scheme (QAS) that is currently being put in place to […]
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) today (7 December) announced it will launch a pilot scheme to monitor whether chambers are complying with the bar code of conduct. The pilot, which is due to launch in April next year, is the forerunner to the quality assurance scheme (QAS) that is currently being put in place to […]